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Summary of "The Grapes of Wrath"
Because of the devastating disaster of the dust bowl, the Joad
family was forced to leave their long-time home and find work and a new
life elsewhere. They, like many other families, moved to California. "The
land of milk and honey". The people in the dust bowl imagined California
as a haven ....
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.... the natural thing was
to go to the only place in the country at that time that was in pe ak
agricultural condition. This was all true in the case of the Joads. They
had no experience with any other kind of lifestyle. They were farmers and
they thought that was what they would remain. What they became was job
hunters, starving and hungry people, and homeless vagrants. California was
no dream land, but the exact opposite. A promised heaven that was revealed
to be a very real hell.
During the long journey to California the Joads, and other migrant
travelers, enc ....
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